La Vuelta Femenina 2025

La Vuelta Femenina 2025 Overview

The third edition of La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es will take place from May 4-10, 2025. The 2025 La Vuelta Femenina route begins in Barcelona with an 8-kilometre time trial and finishes in Asturias with a massive climb to Cotobello. A second summit finish at Lagunas de Neila adds to the appeal to the sport's best climbers.

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La Vuelta Femenina History

Last year, the new La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es, was a seven-day stage race, while the previous eight editions of the event were known as the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta and held at the end of the season in September.

The race started in 2015 as a one-day event, won by US sprinter Shelley Olds. The race was added to the Women's WorldTour calendar the following year, where Jolien D'hoore won back-to-back editions in 2016 and 2017. 

Expanding to a two-day race in 2018, Ellen van Dijk, then racing for Team Sunweb, claimed the overall title largely due to a commanding opening team time trial. Recently retired Lisa Brennauer went on to win consecutive titles in 2019 as a two-day race and in 2020 when the race moved into a three-day format. 

Annemiek van Vleuten then took over with three consecutive titles. At the 2021 race, she dominated the individual time trial and the mountain stage to secure overall victory. In 2022, the Movistar rider attacked on the Fuente las Varas, the penultimate climb of stage 2, and jumped into a lead she would carry to the conclusion on stage 5 in Madrid.  In 2023, the seven-day race presented the riders with a challenging and mountainous event, where Van Vleuten claimed the overall title by just nine seconds over Demi Vollering after a thrilling battle for the red jersey.

Last year, racing for SD Worx-ProTime, Demi Vollering captured two stage victories en route to claiming the overall title. On the final stage, she had enough of a lead to high-five fans near the finish and lift her bike in celebration after crossing the line. Riejanne Markus (Visma-Lease A Bike) finished second overall, 1:49 in arrears while Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) was third.

La Vuelta Femenina 2025 route

The seven days of racing at the 2025 Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es will begin on the Mediterranean coast in Barcelona and process 748 kilometres to the west for a mountaintop finish in the Asturias. The GC will be set with a team time trial on the opening day, then combine three mountain stages with three rolling stages to determine a champion.

Read more about the 2025 Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es route.

La Vuelta Femenina 2025 start list

La Vuelta Femenina schedule

La Vuelta Femenina teams

• AG Insurance - Soudal Team
• Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto
• Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team
• FDJ-Suez
• Fenix-Deceuninck
• Human Powered Health
• Lidl-Trek
• Liv-AlUla-Jayco
• Movistar Team
• Team Picnic PostNL
• Team SD Worx - Protime
• Team Visma | Lease a Bike
• UAE Team ADQ
• Uno-X Mobility
• Arkea-B&B Hotels Woman
• Cofidis Women Team
• EF Education - Oatly
• Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi
• Bepink-Imatra-Bongioanni
• Eneicat-CMTeam
• Lotto Ladies
• Team Coop-Repsol